Dev

• Major (Kubernetes) fails – Sometimes, stories about what went wrong can be just as inspiring as those about what went right.
• Forget monoliths versus microservices – Cognitive load should be your organization’s guiding principle instead.
• 5 principles for cloud native architecture – “The good news is that cloud is made of the same fabric of servers, disks, and networks that make up traditional infrastructure,” explains Tom Grey, head of cloud solutions architecture for EMEA at Google Cloud. “This means that almost all of the principles of good architectural design still apply for cloud native architecture.”
• Everything you always wanted to know about Python 3 file paths – From an object-oriented approach using Path objects to a more procedural approach using the os, os.path, and glob functions.

Ops

• IaaS vs PaaS: Infrastructure as a Service VS Platform as a Service — What’s the Difference and How to Choose – In this article, we’re going to discuss IaaS vs PaaS in detail so that you can grasp a better understanding of how cloud-based services can help you scale your business.
• Write and run tests for your bash scripts with scriptkeeper – Here’s an overview of scriptkeeper, an experimental open source tool (created by software innovation company Originate) to test “all those pesky little scripts we use in and around our applications (e.g., deploy scripts).”
• Many things swing between centralised and decentralised as both offer different trade offs. This post explores local development environments, and why you might not need to run a full cluster on your laptop.

tail -f /dev/misc

Describe programming in only six words.

We’ll RT all the best ones.

Ours:

Turning ideas and caffeine into code.
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— MIT CSAIL (@MIT_CSAIL) June 26, 2019